We Do Not Live in an Age of Cosmopolitanism but in an Age of Cosmopolitization: The ‘Global Other’ is in Our Midst

Abstract

The universalistic social theory, whether structuralist, interactionist, Marxist, critical or systems-theory, is now both out of date and provincial. The author has paid attention to the nature and limitation of methodological nationalism. For decades it was simply how sociology worked; it was a taken-for-granted way of doing sociology - then 'global studies'marched in. Cosmopolitisation first of all effects intermediate institutions like family, work occupation, education, mass media, internet and so forth.